[H-GEN] Strange samba issue

[Robert Stuart]

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Tony Nugent wrote:
> 
> The big twist with samba using unix file permissions is that it
> needs to translate between unix and dos/ntfs permissions (and
> filetypes, eg, symlinks) in a sensible manner, and while the default
> behaviour is usually sensible, smb.conf gives you a large degree of
> control (and therefore complexity) for tweaking how it behaves.

There isn't any need to translate permissions.  You can turn off ntfs 
permissions etc on the share with:

nt acl support = no

Now all that you need to worry about is unix permissions and not how 
they translate.

This will also probably speed things up a little as windows won't cause 
samba to do so many sid/rid/uid lookups.

If you don't turn this off, you can get some strange annoying things 
happening with unknown users etc.  There is an option that caters for 
this "force unknown acl user" that you should definitely set.


Regards,

Robert


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